September Quiz

SEP QUIZ

1.To pacify Parvati, Shiva had to do 2 things

1. Bring Ganesha to life2. ______

What was the 2nd blessing/boon which Shiva gave, which is followed by all of us

2.Fill in the blanksOn February 16, 1968, Alabama Senator Rankin Fite made the first ___call in the United States in Haleyville, Alabama. By 1979, about 26 percent of the United States population had ___ service. In 1999, about 93 percent of the U.S. population was covered by ____ service

3.What is being depicted in below image?

4.What is getting discussed below?'Danger', 'Arrow', 'Rebel', 'Pistol' and 'Arson‘are some of it. Most popular of all is 'Gunner‘. ‘Trigger', 'Shooter', 'Caliber', 'Magnum' and 'Pistol‘ are for BoysLance' is an old-school choice, but has been increasingly joined by 'Mace', 'Blade', 'Saw' and 'Dagger', whilst 'Sabre' has been trending for girlsThere has also been a rise in 'Barrett', 'Remington', 'Kimber', 'Ruger', 'Wesson', 'Browning', 'Benelli' and 'Beretta'. 'Hunter' continues to do very well and has been in the top 50 for boys for two decades in the US now

5.Which phraseIn times gone by, an unwelcome visitor would have been given the cheapest and most common type of food: ___ _____ of mutton.

6.Walt Disney receiving Oscar for which movie?

7.What happens next which didn’t happen for 24 times prior?Father and a son in the after-math of a devastating war. They find the queen and the princess alive in the chaos, and decide to take them home. In due time, the son marries the queen and the father marries the princess. Eventually, the son and the queen have a son, and the father and the princess have a daughter.

Slats (1924-1928), Jackie (1928-1956), Tanner (1934-1956**), George (1956-1958), and Leo (1957-present)

8.What or who? (most of us would have seen/heard this)

9.Which phrase?Medieval warriors were often so laden with weapons that sometimes they would have to carry one in their teeth.

10.What is this?By some estimates, it’s played once every five minutes somewhere in the world

most iconic three seconds of branded audio ever recorded

“The sound needed to convey reliability, innovation and trust,”

11. What happened before or afterDepending on the version, at most three children remained behind: One was lame and could not follow quickly enough, the second was deaf and followed the other ____ out of curiosity, and the last was blind and unable to see where he was going. These three informed the villagers of what had happened when they came out from church

12.These were rejected? What was accepted or won the contest which was incorporated in Unicode, computer keyboards

13. The film tells a fictionalised account of the true story about the two lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898. most of us know the name of the movie. What I want is the name of the 2 lions?

14. In 1966 Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court decision, which found that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda had been violated during his arrest and trial for armed robbery, kidnapping, and rape of a mentally handicapped young woman. What happened because of this, which most of us would have seen/heard in movies?

15.Who wrote the story for this movie?

16.There are 4 ratings. Two are S & U. Which are the other 2?

17.In sports in 1950 – 67 secThe current record is 1.923 secWhat?

18.Conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, from FBI  and William Kinsey Hutchinson,International News Service Editor-in-Chief. This discussion turned into a published article, which received so much positive publicity that on March 14, 1950, the FBI officially announced this ______. What happened due to this conversation

19.Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son was kidnapped and murdered in 1930s in USA. Post this incident, US Govt passed a  Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law? What does this Law state?

20. How did Govt of India do to commerate the platinum jubilee of RBI

21.What is this?

22.What is this?

23.What is this? (Answer is there in the question)

24.Original list has 28. showing the famous 16 only. Whats the connect

25.He entered a look-like contest of Charlie chaplin in 1975 in France and came 3rd. Who?

26.3 examples of what

This word was was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of _________

27.What did Art Fry Invent/discover?Art Fry, a____ employee who sang in his local church choir, was looking for a bookmark that didn't fall out of his hymn book. Frustrated by scraps of paper he had been using, Fry wondered how to get round the problem. By experimenting with the _______formula that had been languishing in the company vaults since the 50s, he made a ______ that could be removed without damaging the pages of the hymn book.

Answers

1A. First God to be worshipped before other Gods

2A. 911

3A. Kho Kho

4A. Child names in USA

5A. Cold Shoulder

6A. Snow white and 7 dwarfs (see the dwarf Oscars in the pic)

7A. Beetal stays with Vikram and becomes his servant. This is the last story where Vikram doesn’t Answer

8A. MGM Lion

9A. Armed to the Teeth

10A. Intel Boing sound

11A. Pied piper of Hamlin who kidnapped all the children

12A . The new rupee symbol

13A. Ghost , Darkness (movie The Ghost and the Darkness)

14A. You have the right to remain silent

15A. Jaya Bachan

16A. “A” Rating & “U/A” rating

17A. Time taken to change Tyres in F1 Pitstop

18A. FBI 10 Most Wanted

19A. Kidnapping became a Federal lawwhich was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Kidnapping_Act

20A. 75 Rs Coin was released

21A. Dedicated to Braille. Google in Braille

22A. First thing to be photocopied by XEROX

23A. First Bug found in a PC

24A. All players who made debut in same year as Sachin Tendulkar• http://www.espncricinfo.com/sachin/content/story/434561.html

25A. Charlie Chaplin

26A. Word is Serendipity

27A. 3M was company and post it in notes

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